Just an interesting note...

When I read Jillian's note on her site about her name's origin and meaning, I thought I'd look up 'Haroun'. Interestingly, according to www.behindthename.com, 'Haroun' is a varient of Harun, as in Harun al-Rashid, a 9th century Abbasid caliph featured in the stories of "The 1,001 Nights". Cool, huh? I thought it was especially interesting that the last name of the "1,001 Nights" historical figure/character is the name of Haroun's dad in Rushdie's book. I didn't find anything exceptionally interesting about the name 'Rashid'...it means "rightly guided" in Arabic.